Listed Building record MDO14667 - Manor Farm Barn, Lillington

A barn built around AD 1600. The building is of seven bays with porches at the north and south. The walls are built of rubble and the roof, which is of collar-beam type, is covered with stone slates.

Manor Farm (ST 62951275) has a barn which was built c.1600. It is of seven bays; the walls are of rubble and the roof of stone slates. The entrances have moulded jambs and oak lintels. There are loop lights and three buttresses on the S. side. a fishpond, south of the church, has a drain at the south, but is now nearly dry. <1>

[Area centred at ST 63101275] Probable Medieval depression; [ST 62921272] barn; [ST 62931264]
The field east of Manor Farm is grass covered, witha gentle west facing slope, upon which is a series of widely spaced enclosures and platforms formed by scarps and banks 2.0m to 5.0m wide and 0.3m to 1.0m high. These indications of what is probably Medieval depopulation suggest that the hamlet once extended eastwards. <2>

The barn has been converted to a private dwelling and maintained in good condition. The stone roof has largely been replaced with brick tiles and various original openings are now occupied by modern windows and doors. Other minor alterations have been made to the exterior and major alterations to the interior. Not outstanding.

In the pasture field to the east is a pattern of lynchetted Medieval or later fields (a), the lynchets being up to 0.5m in height and reduced and spread by ploughing. No evidence of Medieval desertion found here.
The pond to the south is again waterfilled, but the bay and margins of the pond, which is used as a farm sump, are so obscured by the dumping of rubbish that no dating or original purpose can now be determined. <3>

Tythe Barn barn, now converted to a house, c.1600. Roof of jointed raised cruck construction, with curved braces and two tiers of wind bracing. <4>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 135 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(2) Manor Farm, barn and fishpond, W. and S. of the church. The Barn (Plate 55) is of rubble with freestone dressings and the roof is of stone slates. It was built c. 1600 and is of seven bays with N. and S. porches. The entrances have moulded jambs and oak lintels with stone string-courses above them. The barn has loop-lights and three buttresses on the S. side. The roof (Plate 50) is of collar-beam type with curved braces and curved wind-braces. The Fishpond, S. of the church has a dam at the S. end but is now nearly dry.'

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 06-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F2 ASP 11-NOV-77 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<3.1> Royal Air Force, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 3199-3200 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18860.

<4> Department of the Environment, 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Dorset (Parishes of Beer Hacket, Chetnole, Leigh, Leweston, Lillington, Longburton, Ryme Intrinseca and Yetminster), 34 (Scheduling record). SDO16446.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1086081 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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